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Your expectations / desires seem a little all over the place the way I'm reading it.
Anyway, a 5 year old, gas, 1-ton 4wd from either of the big three are reasonably priced @ 20-25k. Unless you go all optioned out. At 10 years old they're downright inexpensive if you really need a truck. Quote:
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Angry and other shoppers,
I'm by no means a truck guru, but this site may help: https://www.f150forum.com/f118/just-...4/#post6798243 The TopToBottom fellow on there is helpful as long as you really read over that thread and know the basics. 1. do NOT use your real email or phone number with any of the car search sites - create a temp gmail and txt/telephone number - you want to be able to monitor it, but you will get contacts from dealerships within 1-2 minutes, and they will never, ever stop. Ever. 2. Ford, Inc., and maybe others give rebates to tire-kickers, the thread above goes into how to work that from the Ford Company. Those rebates are from Ford, so no negative to the dealership - work the best price you can with the dealership, THEN note the company rebates you have - it's an automatic deduction from the price, make sure they apply it. After using the techniques above, I got about 26% off of MSRP. Not great, but I got tired of all the work that went into it. |
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as a dude in the construction world, truck prices have been annoying for a while yea. i think the fact that they are tools keeps prices weirdly inflated. i always operated on cash - business and personal - so it was always used trucks for me. since my trucks were fleet work trucks, my criteria was: cheap and easy to work on, presentable but not flashy, 2x4.... so it behove me to figure out which old, higher mileage trucks were most reliable.
i have been out of the truck and construction game for a few years now and dont remember exactly which ones i liked the best, but i know i liked mid-90s fords, late 80s and early aught chevies... got 200,000+ miles out of them (usually starting around 100k miles), always grabbed em for less than $10k and usually for less than $5k, they were really cheap and easy to work on and usually didnt require anything but oil and belt changes. i still have one of em - 97 f250 HD, has 209,200 miles on it (had it since 75k, iirc)... gas big block, 2x4, tune ups are easy, im pretty sure the only repairs ive made are a new water pump about 10k ago. she runs and drives as well as she did at 75k my favorite of favoritest trucks ive ever had, though, was my 96 f150 4x4.... 300 straight IL 6, 5 speed manual, hand crank windows, manual locks, no radio, just bare ass bones ... good gas mileage for a truck, utterly reliable with normal maintenance, very fun to drive, GREAT iff road with the factory running gear... i dont remember mileage, but i had it as my fun truck for many years and eventually traded it for a 94? BMW 735 (also IL 6!) in good high miles condition plus like $2500 cash.. that truck was awesome, and held its value well. and talk about EASY wrenching... that little straight 6 was surely the easiest truck ive ever worked on. honorable mention to the late-80s chevy 350s with throttlebody fuel injection - amazingly mechanically simple, very reliable, acreage under the hood to work on stuff, cheap as dirt parts, i had a couple of em, one with over 300,000 miles before a chick slammed into the back of it at like 70mph ... it was like an '89 with a third of a million miles and insurance still paid me like $5k for it, which was more than id paid for it years before anyway... theres my case for cheap old trucks. screw dropping dozens of thousands of dollars on a "tool," if thats all it needs be for you.
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The other day I found myself thinking 'i wish Surly made trucks.'
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I'm waiting for the Rapha Edition Ram T-Rex.
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Here's a Dodge that's interesting:
https://lacrosse.craigslist.org/ctd/...247873685.html A couple of others that check most of your boxes: https://lacrosse.craigslist.org/ctd/...247873685.html https://desmoines.craigslist.org/ctd...240153602.html If you are open to 4 doors and a shorter box, there seem to be a lot more of them available than 2 doors with 8' box. |
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Trucks take some adjustment, but so far so good. Good luck with your search. Tim |
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That “lot” is in my back yard. Lots of interesting stuff and good for hard to find parts but known for extremely high pricing on complete trucks. |
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that article is so awesome. and right on the money for those who really use trucks in connection with their work.
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Here's a 2012 Silverado with 25,000 miles for $21,000:
https://stlouis.craigslist.org/ctd/d...252913870.html I'm having trouble ignoring this one for myself: https://quincy.craigslist.org/cto/d/...253028580.html |
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Oh yeah...
(Just don't look at the prices.) This site has some real hot rod gems. |
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Guessing he's trolling around for out of state customers. I was looking at a not running but low mileage 1980 GMC that looks more like $900 than $2900 to me.
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